<h1>Introduction</h1>
<p>You are playing <b>The Free Market</b> as a part of <b>Mukti '09</b> organised by the <b>GNU/Linux Users Group, NIT Durgapur</b>.</p>

<p>The primary aim of this <b>Stock Market Simulation</b> is to popularize different <b>Free and Open Source Softwares(FOSS)</b> by means of an exciting game, where users can experience the joy of Share Trading in a Real Time environment where the stock prices are controlled purely by the <b>Buying and Selling pressure of the Traders of This Game Alone and NOT as a result of an external feed</b>.

<h1>How To Play</h1>
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1. Signup and Login<br />
2. Every trader will be alloted 10,00,000 units of virtual money to trade. The trader is to invest the money on different stocks in order to trade at The Free Market. The market value of each stock can be looked up at the <b>Market</b> or the scrolling <b>Price Ticker</b> above.<br />
3. Click on a Stock in order to know more about it.<br />
4. Click on <b>Buy/Sell</b> in order to Buy/Sell a stock. Enter the desired price and quantity, and click on Create trigger. A trigger is set to your name for the stock with your desired price, quantity and action(buy/sell). The trigger is fired once another buyer/seller for the same stock sets a price favorable to your trigger. If more than one buyer/seller exists, the transaction takes place between the most favorable bids.<br/>
<u>Note:</u><br />
* The most favorable buy is when you quote the highest price to buy a stock. <br />
* The most favorable sell is when you quote the least price to sell a stock you own.<br />
* Your trigger gets <b>defunct</b> when you do not have enough stocks to sell or enough cash to buy!<br />
5. The first few days are for the <b>Initial Public Offering(IPO)</b>. Traders may bid for the stocks available (create BUY Trigger) at the market price. The stocks are alloted at the end of the IPO to the respective buyers and the money is debited (deducted) from their account.<br />
6. The Free Market is open everyday from <b>6 pm to 10 pm</b>. All trading takes place during that period. When the market is closed, user may set Buy/Sell triggers as usual, but the trade occurs only when the market opens!<br />
7. Check you updates at the <b>Updates</b> column to the left. Click <b>View All</b> to view all your updates!<br />
8. Watch out for relavent news on the scrolling <b>News Ticker</b> just below the Stock Ticker. The news may be crucial to the price movement of one or more stock(s).<br />
9. Track your triggers by visiting <b>Triggers</b> and your portfolio (the list of stocks you own) by visiting <b>Portfolio</b>. Notice your <b>Net Worth</b>. At the end of the game the traders with the highest Net Worths are declared the Winners!
10. <b>Brokerage of 1% charged on every tansaction to both the buyer and seller!</b>
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<h1>Disclaimer</h1>
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1. All FOSS names have been used purely for popularizing the Software.<br />
2. All news items are fictional and have no resemblance whatsoever with the real world.<br />
3. The admin may, as situation demands, sell stocks at current market price. This is in order to keep a healthy flow of stocks in the market as new users register.

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<h1>Contact</h1>
<p>
shreyankg AT gmail DOT com | +919836336858<br />
kunalchhajer.nitd AT gmail DOT com | +919831176271
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